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November 28-29 Featured Matches

November 28 – For Shon-Xan Ionia is the only League nation left to have not had the opportunity to fight for the ever so important title of coolest faction. Their patience in the matter has paid off, as they now feel

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November 21-22 Featured Matches

November 21 – Noxus vs Bandle City After the failure of both Noxus and Bandle City to have a team of summoners prepared to represent them in the dispute over the title of the coolest faction, the League was forced

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November 7 – 8 Featured Matches

Time Change The general trend with featured matches recently shows that more people are available to play in the games later in the day than game 1. So, in order to help fit the games to people’s availability the start

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October 31-November 1: Harrowing Featured Matches

Remember, Cute and Cuddly Noxus may have won the title of coolest faction, but the yordles of Bandle City have been walking confidently through the halls of the institute recently. With the festivals of the Harrowing coming, namely the wearing

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October 24-25 Featured Matches

Noxus will Rise Shurima has taken ownership of the coolest faction title. However, many don’t believe that they can truly hold this title with how recently Noxus has defeated them in the dispute. Shurima seeks to prove them all wrong,

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October 17-18 Featured Matches

The Will of the Desert Zaun has broken the cycle and is holding onto the title as coolest faction for more than a week. However the ceaseless challenges for the title have continued to come flooding in. Zaun controls a

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Revised Intermission Rosters

With Intermission recently started, it is time to review the revise the Intermission Rosters for everyone to play with. Matchstaff met up and revised some of the rosters. New champions that were released since the last intermission have been added,

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October 10-11 Featured Matches

Pirates, Ye Be Warned Zaun has bested Piltover on the Fields, and claimed the title as the coolest faction as there own. No sooner had the summoners dismissed their summoning circles than the Zaunite wing of the Institute was flooded

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Intermission: October 3-4 Featured Matches

Intermission Well, with the Lines in the Sands dispute officially over, we now transition into intermission. All the Featured Matches will now be using Intermission Rosters until the start of the next Arc, unless specified otherwise. So, grab a soda,

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September 12-13 Featured Matches – Piltover Weekend

Piltover Weekend With Noxus and Shurima having their featured weekends, it is now Piltover’s chance to (potentially) take the spotlight with their featured weekend. They will face Noxus on Saturday and Shurima on Sunday. Standard Featured Matches BoP points apply.

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September 5-6 Featured Matches – Noxus Weekend

Noxus Weekend This weekend will be featuring Noxus. On Saturday they will play against Shurima, and on Sunday they will face Piltover. Standard Featured Matches points will apply. A quick recap on the score of the Featured Matches so far:

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August 29-30 Featured Matches: Shurima Weekend

Shurima Weekend With the 2nd Tournament concluded, we are back to Featured Matches. This weekend is featuring Shurima. They’ll be playing Piltover on Saturday and Noxus and Sunday. Prize is the standard bonus Featured Matches BoP points, 15 points per

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Second Tournament (Lines in the Sand)

Matches streamed at twitch.tv/LeagueFactions. The second tournament of Lines in the Sand centers on Bel’zhun, which went from a tiny frontier town to a major city during the Hextech Revolution. Shurima has driven Noxus back with a series of devastating victories, and the

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Bilgewater Event—Schedule

Three matches will be held on both Saturday and Sunday. On each day, the first match starts at 12:30 p.m. Pacific (3:30 Eastern), the second at 1:30, and the third at 2:30. On Saturday, August 8, Miss Fortune and Gangplank

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August 1-2 Featured Matches – Round Robin

Round Robin We have another round robin set of featured matches this weekend. Each faction will get a chance to play all the other factions in the arc once each day (schedule of who plays who when is on the

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July 25-26 Featured Matches – Noxus Weekend

The Twisted Treeline Noxus voted to play their Featured Weekend on the Twisted Treeline. Perhaps their allies from the Shadow Isles that they are going to be picking up will give them the home court advantage. It’s a Noxus weekend

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July 18-19 Featured Matches: Shurima Weekend

We are currently running a three-week set of Featured Matches in which the “home” faction selects the Field of Justice on which the matches will be fought. Last weekend, Piltover swept 3–0 on the Howling Abyss against both Noxus and

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July 11–12 Featured Matches—The Velocitronic Railway

There has been significant demand to transfer more story significance to Featured Matches, especially in the absence of a formal World Systems setup. For the next three weekends of Featured Matches, we’ll be giving each faction a chance to make

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Lines in the Sand—First Tournament

  Matches are streamed at twitch.tv/LeagueFactions, beginning at 11:30 p.m. Pacific (2:30 Eastern) for the Finals (Sunday, July 5). Since the arc began, we have had one full rotation of three Featured Match sets, one for each faction involved in

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20–21 June, 25 CLE Featured Matches—Melee

Discussion thread (Factions forum): June 20-21 Featured Matches Discussion thread (League Boards): Factions Matches this weekend There have been three weekends of Featured Matches so far, each centering around one of the three factions in this arc. This weekend, we’ll

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June 13-14 Featured Matches Schedule

Shurima Weekend Shurima is featured this weekend. They will be facing Noxus on Saturday and Piltover on Sunday. If for any reason you cannot make it to a game that you are scheduled to play in, please let us know

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June 13-14 Featured Matches Sign Ups – Shurima Weekend

Shurima Weekend With Piltover and Noxus having their first featured weekends, it’s now Shurima’s turn. They will be playing Noxus on Saturday and Piltover on Sunday. The prize will, once again, be that these matches will be worth a base

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June 6-7 Featured Matches Schedule

Noxus Weekend This week’s featured matches are featuring Noxus, who will play against Piltover on Saturday and Shurima on Sunday. Once again the prize for this week is that the matches are worth 50% more base points than pickup matches.

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June 6–7 Featured Matches Sign Ups – Noxus Weekend

The first month of the arc has begun! After working out some kinks with a trial round last weekend, we are now ready for the first weekend of “proper” Featured Matches. Noxus will be the first featured faction. On June

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May 30-31 Featured Matches Schedule

Here is the schedule for this weekend’s featured matches. Once again this is a Piltover weekend where it will face Shurima on Saturday and Noxus on Sunday. Best of luck to all the summoners and champions preparing to do battle

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May 30-31 Featured Matches Sign Ups – Piltover Weekend

Back to Regular Set-up Alright, so this week we are going back to the normal set-up for featured matches and not streamed pick-up matches. For those who don’t know already, that means teams can only be filled by summoners declared

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May 23-24 Featured Matches

The arc has only started very recently, and so the number of players that have officially declared for each faction are still pretty low. While we wait for everyone to sign up, I’ll run the streamed pickup matches this week

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May 16-17 Featured Matches

I apologize for the late post on the featured matches; I have been really busy getting ready for finals handling my duties at the Institute of War. I don’t know about you, but I am getting pretty excited for the

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May 9-10 Featured Matches

You have probably already noticed this, but we haven’t had featured matches for a few weeks. The original plan was for Arc VII to start a week after the Ironspike tournament, but progress has been slower than initially thought. While

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April 4–5 Ironspike Tournament Schedule

The restoration of Nyroth has sent waves of thaumic energy through Valoran’s nexus network. Though no serious damage was done, flashes of wild magic have triggered a variety of potentially dangerous arcane phenomena across the land. The Summoners and Champions

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February 28-March 1 Featured Matches Schedule

February 28 – The Void vs Piltover Having defeated the Shadow Isles, The Void is now the current holder of the title as the Coolest Faction of Runeterra. Much of Valoran is upset that their one common enemy is holding

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February 28-March 1 Featured Matches Sign Ups

Going to start with an apology for getting this out a day late. I tried making the sign ups yesterday but encountered a computer and/or good drive error that wouldn’t let me get the forms out. I eventually ran out

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February 21-22 Featured Matches Schedule

February 21 – The Void vs The Shadow Isles Upon defeating the Freljord, The Shadow Isles claims the title as the coolest of the factions, and brings an end to the bad puns. However, it seems that the other nations

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Featured Matches Sign Ups: February 21-22

Rank There has been a lot of talk of rank recently, and some people are wondering how we determine rank in factions. I thought I would take a minute at the start of the sign up page to talk with

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February 14-15 Featured Matches Schedule

Happy Valentines Day Happy Valentines Day from everyone here at factions. I would like to use the official League for it, but there is none (we are currently having a community discussion on it in the forums). Let’s hope this

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February 7-8 Featured Matches Schedule

Saturday, February 7 – The Freljord vs The Shadow Isles Having proven themselves cooler than Demacia’s Prince Jarvan IV, The Freljord stands proud. However, the Shadow Isles is upset that they were left out of the competition. The Shadow Isles

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February 7-8 Featured Matches Sign Ups

Saturday, February 7 – The Freljord vs The Shadow Isles Having proven themselves cooler than Demacia’s Prince Jarvan IV, The Freljord stands proud. However, the Shadow Isles is upset that they were left out of the competition. The Shadow Isles

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No Featured Matches This Week (January 31 – February 1)

There won’t be any Featured Matches this weekend, on account of the Superbowl. We always seem to need more sign ups and last minute fill from the community for the featured matches. With the Superbowl taking place, I am expecting

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January 24-25 Featured Matches Schedule

Saturday, January 24: Noxus vs Piltover At the institute, Draven was surrounded by his many adoring fans. 2 young boys walked up to him, one of them held up a notepad and asked, “Please Mr. Draven, can I have your

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January 24-25 Featured Matches Sign Ups

Saturday, January 24: Noxus vs Piltover At the institute, Draven was surrounded by his many adoring fans. 2 young boys walked up to him, one of them held up a notepad and asked, “Please Mr. Draven, can I have your

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New Tournament Format

post by 501st Big Mike; edited by CupcakeTrap Poll – Part 2: Results In the second part of the tournament polls, the community overwhelmingly voted in support of the new Split Format. It had almost a 2/3 majority from the

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January 17-18th Featured Matches Schedule

January 17, Bandle City vs Shurima Simple set of games using intermission rosters. The Yordles of Bandle City shall fight the Shurimans. January 18, Blondes vs Brunettes Dr. Mundo sent in a special request, he was upset that people were

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January 17-18 Featured Matches Sign Ups

Shadow Isles Defeats LIFE In last week’s featured matches, the Shadow Isles beat Lucian and Vayne’s LIFE coalition in a clean 3-0 sweep. They quickly learned that although the undead appeared weak on Nyroth, they are truly a force to

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Seeking Matchstaff

  Matchstaff Needed What many among the community may not know, is that the Matchstaff department was originally created to help create pickup matches. Since then, the few Matchstaff that we have took charge of the Featured Matches, taking up most

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Summary of Featured Matches So Far

I realized that we had a few lore events tied to some of the featured matches over the past few weeks, but I never official announced what happened. I shall amend this right away and fill everyone in. Mundo Saves

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January 3-4 Featured Matches Schedule

Not much to say. Just a quick reminder that this week’s featured matches will be held on the Crystal Scar and that Saturday will be between the Winter’s Claw and the Avarosan, while Sunday will be between Bilgewater and Ionia.

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Tournament Poll – Part 2

Results From Part 1 A few weeks back I posted a poll on some of the format for tournaments. The vote on the skill tier format ended up with just under half the community voting in favor of leaving it

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January 3-4 Featured Matches Sign Up

Map Change I’ve decided to have the featured matches do a short tour of the different playable maps for the the next couple of weeks. Last week we played the matches on the Howling Abyss. This week, we shall be

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December 27-28 Featured Match Schedule

My humble apology for not making the schedule earlier. With the craziness of Christmas and family, I have been very busy for the past few days; as I am sure many of you were as well. To quickly answer a

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Snowdown Has Been Stolen!

Intermission Begins by 501st Big Mike Well, the Nyroth arc has finally concluded (as of 11:59 pm Pacific time December 23). It is certainly a record holding arc for how many new things have been introduced to factions. Now all

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